EditorialThe Farnese Bull with Dirce, Zethus and Amphion. Diana Scultori; Italian, c. 1536-c. 1590. Date: 1581. Dimensions: 369 x 272 mm (image); 398 x 272 (sheet, timed within plate mark). Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy.
EditorialAmphion and Zethus Delivering their Mother Antiope from the Fury of Dirce and Lycus. John Flaxman; English, 1755-1826. Date: 1789. Dimensions: 161 ? 292 mm (primary support); 233 ? 357 mm (secondary support). Pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash, o...
EditorialRoman fresco depicting Dirce tied to a bull by Amphion and Zeto to avenge his mother Antiope. First imperial era. House of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.
EditorialBombardment of Bomarsund. AUG 15TH 1854 (HALF PAST 11 O'CLOCK, AM) SKETCHED FROM HMS BULLDOG . Bird's eye view of the battlescene, explosion on the horizon, ships firing cannons at the fortifications. The print is labelled with the English Camp, The Ea...
EditorialRoman fresco depicting Dirce tied to a bull by Amphion and Zeto to avenge his mother Antiope. First imperial era. House of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.
EditorialThe Farnese Bull. Roman copy (3rd century AD) of a Hellenistic sculpture. Myth of Dirce. She was tied to a wild bull by the sons of Antiope, Amphion and Zethus. Detail Antiope. From baths of Caracalla, Rome. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.
EditorialThe Farnese Bull. Roman copy (3rd century AD) of a Hellenistic sculpture. Myth of Dirce. She was tied to a wild bull by the sons of Antiope, Amphion and Zethus. From baths of Caracalla, Rome. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.
EditorialThe Farnese Bull. Roman copy (3rd century AD) of a Hellenistic sculpture. Myth of Dirce. She was tied to a wild bull by the sons of Antiope, Amphion and Zethus. Detail Antiope. From baths of Caracalla, Rome. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.
EditorialThe Farnese Bull. Roman copy (3rd century AD) of a Hellenistic sculpture. Myth of Dirce. She was tied to a wild bull by the sons of Antiope, Amphion and Zethus. From baths of Caracalla, Rome. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.
EditorialInauguration of the new city hall in Amsterdam, Silver Medal. Front: Mercury with staff and freedom hat above new town hall, in foreground Amphion playing on a lyre inside border with inscription and crowned coat of arms. Reverse: Amsterdam virgin with...
EditorialGreat power of Louis XIV, King of France, Copper Medal. Front: man's bust inside the inside. Reverse: Louis, depicted as Amphion, playing on a lyre and standing with a foot on a pile of stones within an inscription, Louis XIV (King of France), anonymou...
EditorialInauguration of the new city hall in Amsterdam, Silver Medal. Front: Mercury with staff and freedom hat above new town hall, in foreground Amphion playing on a winch inside fringe with lettering and crowned coat of arms. Reverse: the ship Argo, in the ...
EditorialAmphion and Zethus Delivering their Mother Antiope from the Fury of Dirce and Lycus. John Flaxman; English, 1755-1826. Date: 1789. Dimensions: 161 ? 292 mm (primary support); 233 ? 357 mm (secondary support). Pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash, o...
EditorialThe Farnese Bull with Dirce, Zethus and Amphion. Diana Scultori; Italian, c. 1536-c. 1590. Date: 1581. Dimensions: 369 x 272 mm (image); 398 x 272 (sheet, timed within plate mark). Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy.
EditorialAmphion and Zethus Delivering their Mother Antiope from the Fury of Dirce and Lycus. John Flaxman; English, 1755-1826. Date: 1789. Dimensions: 161 ? 292 mm (primary support); 233 ? 357 mm (secondary support). Pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash, o...
EditorialThe Farnese Bull with Dirce, Zethus and Amphion. Diana Scultori; Italian, c. 1536-c. 1590. Date: 1581. Dimensions: 369 x 272 mm (image); 398 x 272 (sheet, timed within plate mark). Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy.
EditorialRoman sarcophagus. About 160 AD. Apollo and Artemis kill Niobe's 14 children. Revenge of Leto. Send your children Apollo and Artemis killing the children of Niobe. Detail: right, goddess Artemis. Left Amphion with child. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.
EditorialThe Farnese Bull with Dirce, Zethus and Amphion. Diana Scultori; Italian, c. 1536-c. 1590. Date: 1581. Dimensions: 369 x 272 mm (image); 398 x 272 (sheet, timed within plate mark). Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy.
EditorialAmphion and Zethus Delivering their Mother Antiope from the Fury of Dirce and Lycus. John Flaxman; English, 1755-1826. Date: 1789. Dimensions: 161 ? 292 mm (primary support); 233 ? 357 mm (secondary support). Pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash, o...
EditorialJohn Blow. Amphion anglicus. Playford; London, 1700. John Blow (1649-1708). English composer. Portrait. Image taken from Amphion anglicus. Originally published/produced in Playford; London, 1700. . Source: Hirsch III 656, frontispiece.
EditorialBombardment of Bomarsund. AUG 15TH 1854 (HALF PAST 11 O'CLOCK, AM) SKETCHED FROM HMS BULLDOG . Bird's eye view of the battlescene, explosion on the horizon, ships firing cannons at the fortifications. The print is labelled with the English Camp, The Ea...
EditorialRoman fresco depicting Dirce tied to a bull by Amphion and Zeto to avenge his mother Antiope. First imperial era. House of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.
EditorialThe Farnese Bull. Roman copy (3rd century AD) of a Hellenistic sculpture. Myth of Dirce. She was tied to a wild bull by the sons of Antiope, Amphion and Zethus. Detail Antiope. From baths of Caracalla, Rome. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.
EditorialThe Farnese Bull. Roman copy (3rd century AD) of a Hellenistic sculpture. Myth of Dirce. She was tied to a wild bull by the sons of Antiope, Amphion and Zethus. From baths of Caracalla, Rome. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.
EditorialNessus sphinx, Amphion floridensis 1, and Amplypterus panopus 2 moths. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849.
EditorialTestudo or lyre of Amphion (1,2), lyre held by Terpsichore (3), psaltery (4), triangular harp or Trigonium (5), Abyssinian testudo (6), Etruscan 6-string lyre (7), lyre (8), Egyptian systrum (9) and richly ornamented lyre. Copperplate engraving by John...
EditorialRoman sarcophagus. About 160 AD. Apollo and Artemis kill Niobe's 14 children. Revenge of Leto. Send your children Apollo and Artemis killing the children of Niobe. Detail: right, goddess Artemis. Left Amphion with child. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.